News articles that make you laugh.

MarkMas

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safrane said:
One way to speed up your commute.

Police are looking for person who is driving an old Ferrari GP2 car on the highway (msn.com)

No doubt a replica and lots of errors in the article... but better than Mondeo spotting
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Reminds me of the story of the German who bought a Mclaren F1 in the 1990s. A couple of months after its delivery to Munich, he got a message from Woking, saying that the telemetry it was sending back to base suggested they would need to have the car in for a check up. He asked why that was. Mclaren's engineers said that the car was reporting that it was doing an average of 150 mph. The German responded that they should not be concerned, as he was commuting daily to Nuremburg in the car, and the average speed sounded about right.
 
Flint

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MarkMas said:
Reminds me of the story of the German who bought a Mclaren F1 in the 1990s. A couple of months after its delivery to Munich, he got a message from Woking, saying that the telemetry it was sending back to base suggested they would need to have the car in for a check up. He asked why that was. Mclaren's engineers said that the car was reporting that it was doing an average of 150 mph. The German responded that they should not be concerned, as he was commuting daily to Nuremburg in the car, and the average speed sounded about right.
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This is one of those stories which may well be apocryphal, but I just want it to be true.
 
Harry

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Ok, I only laughed at this article because someone was called Macadara. But the self-taught 12 year old who got 2 A star ‘A’ levels is flipping amazing.
www.kentonline.co.uk

Maths genius gets two A* A-levels... aged just 12

A boy genius who watches maths videos on YouTube rather than "looking at memes" has bagged two A* A-levels.
www.kentonline.co.uk www.kentonline.co.uk
 
CatmanV2

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Harry said:
Ok, I only laughed at this article because someone was called Macadara. But the self-taught 12 year old who got 2 A star ‘A’ levels is flipping amazing.
www.kentonline.co.uk

Maths genius gets two A* A-levels... aged just 12

A boy genius who watches maths videos on YouTube rather than "looking at memes" has bagged two A* A-levels.
www.kentonline.co.uk www.kentonline.co.uk
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Or there's something very wrong with the expectations presented to our youth....


Only partly joking but no way in **** could I have done that!

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Flint

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Why does no-one think of spreading some of that Surstromming (horrendously stinky tinned fish) around these protestors.
It's food, so it can hardly be assault ;)
 
lozcb

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Flint said:
Why does no-one think of spreading some of that Surstromming (horrendously stinky tinned fish) around these protestors.
It's food, so it can hardly be assault ;)
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Its worth a nicking to see them tar and feathered
 
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